increase infrastructure spending in japan. that's why the asian markets were up overall. did you see what was going on in shanghai index? up another 0 .5%. finally, did you see the airline stocks? nice upgrade at a couple of the firms there, upgrading the airline indexes, moving the last several weeks on better news overall. minimal impact from hurricane sandy. so they upgraded the airline stocks today. the coal stocks up, too, on talk over in barron's that coal would be in much higher demand over in china. guys, back to you. >> thank you, bob. >> let's go over to the bonds and dollars. how are you? >> good morning, jim. well, interest rates, once again, have trickled a bit higher. if you look at it in the context where we've been, basically held the bottom of the range. the pivot, 1.60. we talked quite a bit about how 160 was an important level. we have built on that as we've distanced ourselves, a dozen bases points above it. it's fascinating to look back towards europe. many hedge funds forsaking some of their short positions on the french fixed income market. and so t